Word: dechant
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Sleepless Night. For White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty and Public Affairs Director John DeChant of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, it was a sleepless night. At about 2 a.m., the wire services called to say they were going to release their stories, since Drew Pearson and the Times had already done so. At 4:30, CBS was on the phone asking: What about the pictures? At 6:45, Hagerty and DeChant finally decided there was no use holding out, removed the embargo entirely. CBS, which had planned to break the release, any way, was on the air with...